Instytucje i ich biurokratyzacja próba rekonstrukcji pewnych hipotez

Abstract

The institutions are often seen as a collection of rules and norms of human behavior, organized human practices, and all sorts of his social activity implemented in the structures of meaning and identity, political system, economic growth, prescribing appropriate behavior for specific actors in specific situations or circumstances. According to this point of view the institutions can also be understand as a system of social activity’s patterns maintained and reinforced for the sake of establishing, and regulating the scope, the dimension and the quality of social integration, political organization, and economic system of the production and the distribution of goods, and services. The process of institutionalization of human life is a specific rule of the western civilization’s development and makes a core of Max Weber’s theory of rationalization trying to explain the most important and significant aspects of this process. The problem is that a process of advanced human’s life institutionalization leads to the symmetrically advancing bureaucratization – in some cases – in an even oligarchical way. The mutual, reciprocal causation between these two processes is a main issue in many hypotheses and theories trying to explain the structure of institutional pathologies, a lack of their – institutions – systematical flexibility or the models of their temporal and constant ineffectiveness.